I think I read that the captchas are somewhat complex and require the “user“ to get the right answer to about 1000 or 10,000 captchas within an extremely short amount of time. Basically physically impossible for a human.

Just because there is a bit of technology involved this qualifies the story as yet another slashdot item. I am sorry, but there is just too much political and cultural bullshit on this site these days. Like it wasn't bad enough when the Apple/PC crap was everywhere? Just stick to things that are developer and admin and engineering related. I can go to any news site for the nonsense and righteousness. I come here for tech.

Exactly. Like the idiots who suppressed the anecdotal evidence re Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin in the fight against COVID.

Eleven!!!

It was called "The Dragon Book" by everyone in my college. I still have it sitting on a bookshelf in my home, and it has always been with me for 41 years.

But users are notoriously bad about their password hygiene

I resent that. I drop a Duo every morning. Sure I'm a but user. There is no way I dont clean up after. Did you ever pinch a loaf and not wipe? It gets pretty nasty back there real fast, and burns and itches. I would bet most people that use there buts to poo are good about there hygene.

I just came across a list of items Amazon routinely lets people âoetrashâ instead of returning. It was posted on Parler a little over an hour ago. Let me find that link. Hmm. Hold on. Iâ(TM)m having trouble getting it. ... Snao!

Before Steve Jobs came back there was "Inside Macintosh" that was probably the best set of documents on a consumer OS. It helped me to become a pretty decent Mac developer. With the transition from Carbon to Cocoa "Inside Macintosh" was abandoned. The quality of developer mailings and resources dropped, and if you wanted to make the change you had to attend a "boot camp" (not free) and spend countless numbers of hours every week trying to learn a whole new way of doing something (that used to be documented and worked just fine, thank you very much). I feel like Steve Jobs abandoned a lot of good developers by remaking Apple as NeXT. Now I like developing in the Windows world (and love the hardware options, including Intel's NUC).

a dozen hits of acid. Well, definitely the acid.

Surely someone can post something positive about this. Like the Mainstream Media and President Trump, you would think that the CIC hasn't done one thing, not one, positive. All I see here are petty gripes and grammar school comments.

Radio has a lot more to do with internet communications than most people realize. I don't think most of you commenting really care though. Radio "nets" have been around a lot longer than the Internet, and I'll leave it at that. Post something positive for while?

God how I wish I knew there was a limit to the slashdot username back in the day. The textbox was so huge and moist and inviting and ... it let me type the whole freaking thing in, for crying out loud!! So what about a short userid and a long meaningless string of characters and a ... suspiciously Roosky sounding last name?

Speaking of trees, has anyone considered what locking CO2 away will do to plants? Will we be starving vegetation of its food?

Remote laser porn coming to a mall near you. Oh my lord!

And the heat will be reflected back to earth via the greenhouse effect and we will be Doomed!!! At least we'll know whose doors to knock on and blame as the person responsible for destroying the planet.

IBM 360/370 systems are so cool. Unlike the PCs of today you could write things called channel programs that executed on the disk controller. You could customize/optimize the code to write out or read in data that is "tuned" to the rotation of the disk and move tracks or cylinders (vertical stacks of tracks) with amazing speed. The channels were processors themselves, to a degree, and controlling both your IO and your CPU was what made it all fun.